Re:Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD? (2017)
by GrayShade on Sunday May 03, 2020 @02:28PM
(#23060896)
Debian unstable (IIRC) updated Firefox a couple weeks late because cargo got a couple of new dependencies and nobody added them to the Debian repos. This is because they forbid static linking, so there are hundreds of packages of popular Rust crates compiled as shared libraries. Even worse, some of them have multiple variants, for various combinations of features.
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Re:Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD? (2017)
by steveklabnik on Sunday May 03, 2020 @02:48PM
(#23061007)
Sure. This is one instance of this happening, and it was fixed, it just took some work. Nobody even filed an upstream bug. This isn’t something exclusive to Rust. It’s almost arguably more due to the way that browsers are treated as an exemption from distro packaging policies (which I appreciate, personally.)
Re:Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD? (2017)
by Ar-Curunir on Sunday May 03, 2020 @03:37PM
(#23061278)
That’s a Debian issue. They’re trying to foist a dependency management strategy intended for C on a different language with a different strategy